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international d series manual

13 years 3 months ago - 13 years 3 months ago #43530 by
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Did all D's come with all wheel factory disc's?

Four wheel disc brakes were standard fit on all Australian-built International heavy duty utes, from the C-1100 on, from about 1965.

It would not be an American import, they never built the D model Inter, as we know it. The American D-1100 is a totally different vehicle.
The International Harvester Co of Australia, built their original factory in Geelong, which factory opened in early 1939, building (unpowered) agricultural equipment.
All International trucks were imported from the U.S. in CKD (Completely-Knocked-Down) form in crates, and assembled here, until 1949. Most of the truck bodies were built locally.

In mid 1949, production of Australian-built International trucks commenced at Geelong, and up until the early 1960's, many additional models of U.S.-built International trucks were imported.
However, the importation of American-built trucks was restricted to the heavy duty models that weren't built here.

IHCA expanded their operations with an additional factory at Dandenong in the early 1950's, and installed a cab-manufacturing facility by 1957.
The production of many of the cab panels was done for IHA by the T.J. Richards division of Chrysler Australia in S.A. In 1960, Chrysler Aust. and IHCA decided to share the construction of the cab of their new truck models. Thus the cabs of the bonneted Dodge trucks and Inter trucks from 1960, are basically the same.

The design of the American International trucks and the Australian trucks started to diverge from 1957, and from the early 1960's onwards, there were a vast range of differences in models. Many 1960's an 1970's American models of Inter trucks and utes were not produced here, and many of our Australian-built Inter trucks and utes are peculiar to Australia, being of largely Australian design.

The C and D series utes were wholly Australian-designed and built .. however, the Inter utes started to become less popular in the early 1970's as the Inter range came under heavy pressure from Japanese products, and other Australian-produced vehicles.
Even the likes of the Holden 1-tonner, introduced in late 1971, bit into Inter ute sales, and the Inter ute sales fell away badly, until the D-series ceased production around 1980.
There does appear to be a lot more C-1100's utes around, than D-1100's. In the D-series, the D1300 was the most popular .. but the big ute market in that era was dominated more by Dodge utes, than Inters.

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13 years 2 months ago - 13 years 2 months ago #43531 by dbooth
Sorry about the lack of attention. Works gets in the way of a good time sometimes. Have got the manual, thanks to Doc.
Last edit: 13 years 2 months ago by bigcam.

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